Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-22
TIE SITE Of EDEN.


81 sOur First Parents Before TRey Left
Frsdlss.
Charleston Is. c. News.
8 !guredly there is no place like
rsstOn. It Was famous in the old
s,isl dsys. It's history during the
al reVolu ion WAS heroic 1t was
cradle of the rebellion" 1t is the
ne Of the most stEpeRdous earthquake
4athe American continent has known
noiern times. 1t is the place of the
sasS festival which is now in progress.
h would seem to be enough; but the
sast dignity and honor, it seems, was
4 BIO come. Charleston, it Is now as
b. Was the site of the Garden Of
lsiise, the ancient Eden, which
salogisns and historians for centuries
II have vainlY sought TO determine.
81 Bishop J.. c. Keener writes to the
ghefn CHRISTIAN AdyOcste { Methodist
EVeW Of the speculations of DR.. War
3 zdthe Boston University, who argues
q 81 "the cradle Of the human race" is to
nld St the north pole, and of course,
Bishop Keener says, if this is the truth
one can think Of it or look toward 1t
lieut. seeing Boston and It's university.
3 Warren says IN his book that one Of
most pathetic passages in literature
nat in which Columbus announces to
loyal patrons his discovery of the
25lt to the gate Ct the long lost
rdeH Of Eden. OF course Columbus
mistaken, but it may be, Bishop
F1erTemsrks, ne was not so far out Of
way as DR. Warren thinks. Suppose
I'VE BRING EDEN DOWN SOUTH
ha Charleston, embracing the coast
s7een the Ssntee and Savannah, with
several rivers and inlets, between the
9astl and fortieth parallels of lsti
--sl there is this at least to say:
L Il and near the Cooper and Ashley
ash there Is 8 vast collection OF the re-
1as OF the largest mammals, specially
asl molsrs and vertebIR. These
y remarkable for their variety; very
~ very many, and evidently OF many
S.aI species We put this against all
LAY Individuals as yet discovered in 4
aSsf me arctic regions.
besides those remains, which from
suOuat Of silica in them, have resist
800. NC sc1on Of time and acids, there are
Il, ,'sglaie masses in which these molars
r.. l0saoed. Probably the large bones
~. ..lsu 10 their original source. Then
~ M ale scattered about small and large
= ~ =. Of the phosphst Of lime indicat-
s,' go greater depth q mine of this
\, s tals shows that these animals were
\, !, r rIs'ea into this place by the action of
n. s aIs, but were here from the first
|ps n ,Uulu IN the slluVial plains around,
hi ~ w'auoWs filed with dubious plants
81 az e1,uoerant fora their original hsb-
n ha o-ly region supplying plants fed
h. .a'y phosphate pabulum could sup
III s.Sfes OF such enormous bone.
hon = ~. slese several species multiplied
efss E single pair, masses of their re-
s,s ~ 9g .s most probably indicate the
n n ~ .aelr origin. Whether behemoth
srisTssIse IN IN Eden, we know that he was
Ian mere, and there named by
sJo5. a.. A9u the Almighty says, speaking
e.8s r,., A5hold now benemoth, which l
en- 'l NEE; he eateth grass like an
s slt.ir. Jews '. are strengthened by the
q, rs " 'he ark. It is to be supposed
"a 5o- lVed not very fer from the orr
1Une Of msn.
u sr,, THE ARK
10 r To,lently designed for speed and q
sait tsge' Had it been made only to
his an given point and float about
S4aars I.sl and then ground at no great
sald S, ron the point OF departure, it
d 1mS sae oeen shaped heavy Snd square.
Atllp NJ - 'or such vessel were neces-
'es0stb eTuutlEuous length and CREST
iss spc, Us knees and ribs would re-
g he Sc, WOO as the live oak, grown
sas, 80 90. Large quantities of pitch
l'st.tiobSs be required to make 1t
Pitch D 49,. Inc world gopher" means
atn Is piue." Bishop Keener holds
q tie W pOSslole that the gopher wood
aaet Of FC ~ Of the long leaf pine, which
sAedia Tue ue Csrolinas could have fur
he dslTan up of the deep at the time
2 Tery SsS would not imply necessarily
@ Of ibss teat Change in the conforma-
'utlnentS nor IN the sea cur